BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS

This century s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism Angela Davis Fanon is our contemporary In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon s urgent dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism s subjects internalize its prejudices eventually emulating the white masks of their oppressors it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti colonialist thinker So hard to put down a brilliant vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair The New York Times Book Review